In recent years there have been several major outbreaks of bovine ephemeral disease in the Middle East, including Israel.
The BDA module is designed to simulate tree mortality following major outbreaks of insects and/or disease.
By October 1940, Japanese planes dropped a mixture of grains and fleas over Chinese towns, causing two major outbreaks of bubonic plague south of Shanghai.
Forced austerity across Europe is causing major outbreaks of violence and there is much ill-feeling towards these EU enforced measures.
For example, he said, water chlorination programs carried out by Iraqis have prevented major outbreaks of cholera amid the chaos of the insurgency.
Almost all of the major outbreaks of civil disorder of the past 30 years have involved looting as well as attacks on property and on the police.
In fact, there were no major outbreaks of West Nile virus anywhere in the world between 1975 and the mid-1990s.
I managed to contract the flu during each of the three major outbreaks of Type A virus between 1957 and 1977.
Other diseases that have recently caused widespread suffering include four major outbreaks of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) in Saudi Arabia and the Republic of Korea, the pandemics of avian and swine flu and severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars).
There were fears in Nepal that, in the aftermath of the earthquakes, poor sanitation and contaminated water could lead to major outbreaks of water-borne diseases, such as cholera, which is endemic in the country.
The city's contaminated water supply contributed to two major outbreaks of cholera, a disease that causes vomiting, diarrhea, and dehydration so extreme that patients can lose ten per cent of their body weight in less than a day.
